Steve Dennett <DENNETT@SRI-NIC> (02/07/85)
Cermetek is advertising their 1200/300 baud modems in BYTE for the low price of $199 (stand-alone) and $149 (IBM PC board). These are the INFOMATE 199SA and INFOMATE 212PC respectively. Has anyone had any experience with these modems? Are they Hayes compatible? (the ad says "Crosstalk software compatible"). Thanks for your help. Steve Dennett dennett@sri-nic.arpa
gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) (02/12/85)
[at 1200 baud this line can be eaten in about 50 msec] > Cermetek is advertising their 1200/300 baud modems in BYTE for the low > price of $199 (stand-alone) and $149 (IBM PC board). These are the > INFOMATE 199SA and INFOMATE 212PC respectively. > > Has anyone had any experience with these modems? Are they Hayes > compatible? (the ad says "Crosstalk software compatible"). Thanks for > your help. They are NOT Hayes-compatible. They tell you how to modify defaults in Crosstalk XVI to teach it the Cermetek commands. You can often use manual commands to accomplish your goals, of course. I just got the PC model for my Compaq. It seems to work OK (stable etc), and the terminal emulator I use lets me specify the dial command (or do it from the keyboard). If you use a S/W package that must send Hayes commands and can't be patched (is that an oxymoron?), you might be unhappy. I'm satisfied, though. BTW, their free terminal S/W is a dumb terminal (but maybe their documentation is confusing me in that regard). -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino) The opinions expressed above are accidents.